Description Los Angeles is better known for cars, so many forget about the history of the Train and Southern California.Union Station, built in 1939, is considered to be 'The last of America's great rail stations.' Located in Downtown Los Angeles on 800 N. Alameda St., between the Santa Ana Freeway (US 101) and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue (Formerly Macy St.), this was, is and will be the home of Los Angeles transportation - past, present and future.Union Station, built with the cooperation of the region's three principal railroads, the Union Pacific Railroad, the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, was the transportation gateway into Los Angeles, years before there was an LAX. The 1940s saw the heyday of the railroad era, as movie stars and GIs alike arrived in or left this city through the station's platforms.However, in the 1970s, passenger rail travel had given way to the airplane and the automobile, and Amtrak was formed as a result of the railroads' dwindling passenger service. For the next several years, the station and its platforms remained relatively empty, serving more pigeons than passengers.PresentThe 1990s, however, became Union Station's renaissance era. The Metro Rail (Red Line) subway's terminus was located here, Amtrak's San Diegans and Coast Starlight expanded to become some of the most popular lines in the nation and most of all, Metrolink turned Union Station into the hub of the Southland's commuter rail network and brought passenger and train traffic back nearly to its former glory.

Bradley Martin, Altadena, CAMember Since June 2008Artist Statement Bradley Martin started his venture into photography in the 1970s when as a child his father gave him his first camera, a Kodak Instamatic 104. He has moved forward with his work, but still cherishes the photographic slides from his first camera.

Bradley’s Gallery of work is best described as “Photographic Art” due to the pre and post production work he puts into each image. But more than just the additional hours; Photographic Art is any object originating through the lens of a camera, which can be produced as an original print or reproduction.

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"In the work of Bradley Martin, you will find the work of a searching mind and eye.

Most of all, ...you will be delighted to discover one of the most exquisite, sensitive, judicious sets to be seen. In his [galleries], you will see the work of a masterful eye, with a keen sense for understatement, freshness of vision, color, selection, framing, and composition. There is a quality so fresh and original, in his way of perceiving and presenting. Anyone who takes time here will come away enriched, and the more discriminating a photographer."

Dr. E. John Walford is Professor of Art History and Art Department Chair 1981-2002, at Wheaton College, Illinois---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------